The National Parrot Relinquishment Research Project reported that, of the total number of birds relinquished by owners for a 12-month period, 19% were relinquished because of biting and aggression, 15% because of noisiness, and 6% because of feather-destructive behavior.

When Ekwensi placed girl hawkers in the same category as these loud of mobile inanimate objects, he perhaps unconsciously highlighted the three key attributes of girl hawkers- their noisiness, their itinerancy, and their ironic invisibility.

It embraces some physical features such as noisiness, smelliness, throng, and some more abstract thought-provoking issues, for instance, individuality, anonymity, autonomy and, most prominently, a sense of a new moral order which is based on the slackening control on their sexuality and their discontent with their summer job arrangements.

28) This quietly omnipresent noisiness which crosses borders between states is a crepitation, a cloud of sonic abrasions, a persistent sifting of matter, an atomisation of difference between subjects and objects.

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